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Dear small business owners

Instead of berating your employees about why you can’t pay them a living wage, join the fight against big, wealth-hoarding corporations which ensure you can’t pay.

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I quit, put in my 2 weeks and agreed to work through the end of the week.

I get back to work and everyone has taken the rest of the week off, leaving me by myself. I want to just not show up for the remainder of the week as I feel taken advantage of. What would you do?

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America bought and paid for.

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Congratulations!

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Does anybody have experience with layoffs?

I’ve been working at a company for about 6 months now and they just started to do layoffs in the last week. We went from ~110 employees (including a lot of temps) to about 60-70 employees and all of our temps are gone. Everyone I’ve talked to has said I’m good and they’re going to keep me around cause I do good work. I’ve just never dealt with this kind of thing before so I was wondering if I should be looking hard for a new job cause I had planned to be here a while but then this started happening. Overall the company doesn’t seem to be doing a lot of business but they’ve been saying we’re going to be very busy ‘soon’ since I got hired so idk what to believe. Anybody’s experience/advice about something similar would be great.

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pay cut in new job, stay or quit? suggestions?

hello all, posting this through a throwaway I had recently joined a startup (around 4 months) ago Last month, I was told that there is going to be a salary cut of around 60% i.e I will receive only 40% salary of what i was promised until things get right for the startup just to add, i might also be given additional unrelated to my profile – job responsibilities over the period of next few months I dont want to burn bridges with them but its not feeling right to work. can you guys please suggest how do i go about it, and should i resign if at all and how to go about it without burning bridges.. im really confused and want opinion from people who have some experiences dealing with similar experiences. Im young (21-24) tiq

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I submitted a job application for a retail job last week. Didn’t hear back. Followed up with the GM yesterday, and they said they would consult with their assistant manager today before letting me know if they’d interview me.

But when I talked to the assistant manager last week, they said that they don’t have any say in hiring and that it’s all the GM. Is this all a ruse to pass the buck, so I don’t get hired? The GM’s bf is a manager elsewhere and wants her to not hire me, for petty reasons. But she has seemed like she wants to be fair to me. He’s a controlling nutcase, but I feel like I shouldn’t let him stop me from finding opportunities. He’s just mad because his ex liked me after he dumped her.

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Montana ‘Right-to-Work’ Bill Hearing Draws Large Crowd

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If your manager approached salary negotiations this way, would you feel valued or underappreciated?

https://brightmatterhr.com/knowledge-centre/blogs/a-simplified-approach-to-negotiating-salary/

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An alternative to the “inspirational” morning emails

I’m a mid-level manager and I typically eschew the BS “motivation” or “inspirational” stuff managers do. The managers under me always send them Monday emails and morning emails and Friday emails with quotes and whatnot to staff. We are fully remote. “I hope you feel invigorated today. I just walked my dog 3 miles and saw a bird eating a worm. I hope today you can catch that worm for yourself. You are amazing!” Stuff like that. I just made that shit up right now but I could paste that into an email and they’d eat it up. Recently they’ve banded together to ask why I don’t respond to their emails because I’m their leader and they would like my support with their staff. I think it is silly and not motivating to their staff. They should just the themselves and that’s sufficient. What do you all think? Are these…